Observations, articles, opinions etc. in Dutch and English. The author, Bert de Bruin (Yonathan Dror Bar-On), is a Dutch-Jewish historian, who has specialized in modern Jewish history and in the history of the Middle East, and who in 1995 emigrated from the Netherlands to Israel. He wrote one book (2008), and edited another (2011), both in Dutch. For feedback please post a comment, or send this blog's author an email: (hisdutchname)atyahoodotcom

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Under Israel-related weblogs another Dutch weblog was added. Ratna Pelle ( "neither Jewish nor Palestinian nor Israeli nor Arab" ) writes about Zionism and the Arab-Israeli conflict. I discovered her blog after she left a comment on mine. When I saw her name it somehow rang a bell, and I was right: it turns out that in the late 1980s or early 1990s both of us were members of the youth section of the Dutch Labor party in Amsterdam ( I was a student of Semitic Languages, she was still at high school ), and we met during one or more local activities.